As you may be aware, prices are increasing for all of our household bills and you may be putting processes in place at home to lower the expenses as much as possible. But don’t forget about your workplace, as the same principle has also been applied to your compressed air costs. With the official industry standard compressed air cost rate previously established as 13p per Kw/h, that figure has now risen to a 34p per KW/h!
To put that into perspective, if you were running a 30 Kw compressor 24/7 in your facility (as many manufacturers have to), your annual compressed air costs would rise to around £111,000 per year based upon an efficient system at 7.5 Bar.
So if your site is powered by one or multiple compressors, you may want to listen to the following steps that will help get your energy saving journey underway…